Blog entries tagged with playwrights

It is a unique experience to be in a room full of playwrights. First, because there is always that underlying suspicion that something you say will make it to one of their plays. Second, it is interesting to see how much of themselves, although no...

Lika Mizinova Chekhov met his wife, Olga Knipper, when she played the role of Irina in the legendary Moscow Art Theatre production of The Seagull . Why he finally married her, three years before he died, has proved a mystery to biographers. The...

Of Chekhov’s four masterworks — The Seagull , Uncle Vanya , Three Sisters , and The Cherry Orchard — only the first depicts the lives of artists. The actress Irina, the novelist Trigorin, the playwright Konstantin, and the aspiring ingénue Nina —...

The pretty productions that you see on the Huntington's stages aren't the only stunning works of theatre going on around these parts. The development of new work for the American theatre is one of our core missions , and the process can be even...

If you've been anywhere near the internet lately (or at least, my internet), you've probably noticed that there's (rightfully) been a lot of conversation about diversity and representation, especially in relation to the arts and creative...